With Veritas, you want to make sure hardware compression is enabled and play with the buffer and block sizes a bit under the device options. I think the default is 32K.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jasa, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:10 AM Subject: RE: Not using BLB, But getting really slow backups. We are using a Compaq TL891DLX Minilibrary with 2 DLT 40/80 drives. We were getting backup speeds of around 350MB / Min at one point. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy David Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 9:53 AM To: Exchange Discussions What tape drive are you using? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jasa, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:48 AM Subject: Not using BLB, But getting really slow backups. Hello, Veritas 9 - were using version 8 and getting the same problem. Exchange 5.5, NT4 SP6a We can not seem to get better then 100 MB / minute backing up the Exchange servers. using the Exchange agent. Many nights lately it is much worse. The NICs and ports on the switch have all be set to 100/full. IS Maintenance is from 4am - 7am. Ensured that Trend Server Protect is not doing any scheduled scans and that realtime scans exclude Exchange directories. The databases on the 2 servers are not big: One is 25 GBs with 7 GBs of whitespace The other is 17 GBs and only a 300 MBs of whitespace. Nightly oneline defrags are successful. Veritas tech notes point to a fragmented database - I don't buy that unless Exchange IS maintenance is not functioning on both servers. I also have a few other admins that swear by offline defrags - because they always seemed to help. Any ideas where I should be looking? Thanks Ken Jasa _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
